Effect of exogenous melatonin on the onset of puberty in female albino rats

Anatomical Record

Volumn 245, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 519-524

  Batmanabane, Mounissamy ^a   Ramesh, Kunnampilly Gopalkrishnan ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Melatonin; Ovary; Puberty; Rats; Thymus

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ALBINISM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; THYMUS; VAGINA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MELATONIN; OVARY; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 0029949452     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199607)245:3<519::AID-AR8>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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